Jane Austen (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Park Honan
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Biography
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Love or romance, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Social issues, Marriage, Class consciousness, Manners or customs, Social life, Brothers and sisters, Novelists, England or English people, Women’s issues, Eighteenth century, Women, Sex roles
- Locales: England
JANE AUSTEN: HER LIFE is an unusual and excellent biography. Its subject is an acknowledged master of the “novel of manners.” Her keen perception, reflected in such masterpieces as SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, and NORTHANGER ABBEY, cuts through the foibles and pretensions of the early nineteenth century. The biography’s author, Park Honan, in chapters arranged chronologically with a notation of Austen’s age at the beginning of each, describes virtually every significant incident in her life and gracefully relates these details to the plots of her works. Honan has...
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